Dear colleague, One paper, published in Acta Zoologica Sinica, include this kind of data, you can read the attached file, or browse the webpage at:
http://www.actazool.org/paperdetail.asp?id=2972&volume=51&number=4&bgpage=557&endpage=585&year=2005&month=8 I also paste the abstract below for your references. Zhi-Yun JIA,Ph.D. Standing Associate Editor http://www.actazool.org/board_staff/jiazye.htm Institute of Zoology The Chinese Academy of Sciences 25 Beisihuan Xilu, Beijing 100080, China Tel.:86-10-62624530 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free access to http://www.actazool.org, we welcome you to link to this journal! Acta Zoologica Sinica is an international, OPEN-ACCESS journal, interested scientists can read and download the published papers free of charge, and the papers on the journal's webpage are browsed and downloaded over 2000 times every day. The journal is increasing its international presence by publishing more and more English papers, and welcomes the submissions from other parts of the world. Accetped papers in English will be published ASAP. In the 4th issue of 2008, we will pulibish one issue mainly including papers in the filed of ECOLOGY, EVOLUTIOIN AND BEHAVIOR. Acta Zoologica Sinica, Aug. 2005, 51(Issue 4):557 - 585 Title: Extinction-prone attributes of terrestrial mammals in China Authors: LIU Xue-Cong LI Yi-Ming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080,China Abstract: We collected data on four basic traits of 367 terrestrial mammal species in China: body size, fecundity, use and endangered status. Using randomization test and regression analyses, we examine whether: (1) threatened species are randomly distributed among families. If not, which families contain more or less threatened species than would be expected by chance? What is the relationship between threatened proportion and exploitation among taxa? (2) threatened species are randomly distributed with respect to body size and fecundity. What do the relationships between proportion of threatened species and body size/fecundity look like? Has exploitation generated important effects on the threatened pattern? Results show that threatened species are not randomly distributed among families. Felidae, Bovidae and Cercopithecidae contain more threatened species than expected, while Muridae and Soricidae contain significantly fewer threatened species than expected. Proportion of threaten! ed species in families is positively correlated with the proportion of exploited species. Threatened species also are not randomly distributed with respect to fecundity or body size. Once phylogeny has been statistically controlled, threatened status is positively associated with increases in body size and decreases in fecundity. In multivariate stepwise regressions, only body size is a predictor of threatened status. Average body size of species within taxa is positively correlated with the proportion of exploited species. These results suggest that overexploitation has a great effect on the threatened patterns of mammals in China[Acta Zoologica Sinica 51(4): 557�C585, 2005] . Keywords: Terrestrial mammal, Extinction-prone attribute, Body size, Fecundity Correspondence should be addressed to LI Yi-Ming (E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]). ======== 2008-05-22 14:37:58 您在来信中写道： ======== Dear All, with a collegue of mine and with the help of prof. nick gotelli we are currently implementing a null-model based approach to the analysis of community assembly in order to assess the importance of individuals size in the structuring of the community itself. To this end, we need community data sets resolved to the scale of individual size - e.g., mass, or length. We will acknowledge help provided in terms of data sets - published and unpublished - from terrestrial and aquatic environments, vertebrates and invertebrates assemblages etc. In addition, we will be grateful for any info regarding data sets made available on the web. many thanks to anybody! Enrico Barbone Dept. of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Salento [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giorgio Mancinelli Ph.D. Dept. of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Salento [EMAIL PROTECTED] = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-05-23
